In 1994, the Pet Shop Boys and New Order both released completely unrelated songs called “Young Offender.” The two groups were (and are) contemporaries and collaborators, but those tracks didn’t have anything to do with each other. It was just a coinkydink. They were both good songs, though. Now, San Francisco punk rockers Spiritual Cramp happen to have a new song called “Young Offenders,” which has nothing to do with the similarly titled Pet Shop Boys and New Order tracks. Spiritual Cramp are not contemporaries with those two bands, though I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that they’ve played some of the same festivals. This new “Young Offenders” absolutely kicks ass. Apparently, it’s a good-luck charm to use some variation on that song title.
